This is not an actual diary written by me. This is just a for-the-record accounting of the massive fraud that the republican party has put over on the American people. A concentration of the corruption put into words, that shouldn't at this point have been surprising coming from the GOP.
But it was and still is — imo
I began searching the transcript for specific lies to highlight and soon dropped that approach as there is not a single word, sentence, or paragraph of truth that would serve as a backdrop needed to achieve that kind of comparison.
This speech by republican politician and senate whip John Cornyn is 100% perjury before the American people - start to finish
Senator John Cornyn; October 6th, 2018: (video @ link)
Senator Cornyn on Kavanaugh Nomination
transcript @ C-Span:
MADAM PRESIDENT IT SEEMS LIGHT YEARS AGO BUT IT WAS JULY JULY 9th, WHENPRESIDENT TRUMP NOMINATED BRETT KAVANAUGH TO BE THE NEXT JUSTICE TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES.OF I WANT TO RECAP JUST TO REFRESH EVERYBODY'S MEMORY WHAT HAS HAPPENED SINCE JULY 9th AND EXPLAIN BRIEFLY WHY I WILL BE VOTING FOR JUDGE KAVANAUGH TO BE THE NEXT ASSOCIATE JUSTICE ON THE SUPREME COURT. MOST IMPORTANTLY, I WANT TO MAKE ONE POINT CLEAR THAT THE SENATE SHOULD NOT BE INTIMIDATED UNDER THIS CIRCUS -LIKE ATMOSPHERE UNFORTUNATELY HAS SURROUNDEDRO THIS ENTIRE CONFIRMATION PROCESS PROCESS.
WE SHOULD NOT BE INTIMIDATED OR COMPLICIT IN THE ORCHESTRATED ATTEMPT TO ASSASSINATE ONE MAN'S CHARACTER AND DESTROY HIS CAREER AND TO FURTHER DELAY THIS CONFIRMATION VOTE. WHEN JUDGE KAVANAUGH WAS NOMINATED IT WAS CLEAR WE WERE DEALING WITH SOMEBODY WELL-QUALIFIED AND WELL-RESPECTED HE SERVED 12 YEARS ON THE DC CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS AND WAS WELL KNOWN FOR HIS EXPERTISE AND TALENT AND EXPERIENCE. FORMER COLLEAGUES AND LAW CLERKS SAID THAT, LEGAL SCHOLARS INCLUDING THOSE WHO DID NOT SHARE HIS VIEWS ON THE LOSS SAID THAT AS WELL. SO WHAT HAPPENED?
I THINK OPPONENTS OF THE NOMINATION KNEW THEY COULD NOT BE HIS NOMINATION THE OLD-FASHIONED WAY, ON THE MERITS, SO THEY DECIDED TO THROW IN THE KITCHEN SINK FIRST CAME THE TRASH TALKING SUPPORT THAT SOMEHOW IT WOULD BE COMPLICIT WITH EVIL THAT WAS A UNITED STATES SENATOR WHO SAID THAT. ANOTHER SAID HIS CONFIRMATION COULD SPELL DESTRUCTION OF THE CONSTITUTION ITSELF. THESE ARE APOCALYPTIC WORDS AND RHETORIC. MOST AMERICANS CAN SPOT A WILD UNTRUTH AND PETTY SHAMING WHEN THEY SEE IT. SO THAT DID NOT WORK VERY WELL. AND OPPONENTS HAD TO MOVE ON ROUND NUMBER TWO. THEN THEY ARGUED JUDGE KAVANAUGH COULD NOT BE FAIR AND IMPARTIAL BECAUSE HIS VIEWS OF EXECUTIVE POWER OR HIS EXPERIENCE OF WORKING ON THE TERRORIST POLICY FOLLOWING THE ATTACKS THAT DEVASTATED THIS COUNTRY ON SEPTEMBER 11, 2001 HE WORKED AT THE WHITE HOUSE.
THANKFULLY THE FACT CHECKERS DID THEIR DUE DILIGENCE TO SPOT ERRORS WITH EACH OF THESE ARGUMENTS SO OPPONENTS OF THE NOMINATION MOVED ON. NEXT CAME THE PAPER CHASE THE INSISTENCE THAT MORE AND MORE DOCUMENTS NEEDED TO BE PRODUCED THAT WERE TRADITIONALLY HELDON BACK BECAUSE OF EXECUTIVE PRIVILEGE BECAUSE THESE WERE NOT DOCUMENTS THAT BRETT KAVANAUGH OWNED BUT EITHER BY THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OR THE GEORGE W. BUSH LIBRARY.
IT'S IMPORTANT TO NOTE THAT MORE DOCUMENTS ABOUT JUDGE KAVANAUGH HAVE BEEN PRODUCED FOR HIM THAN ALL OTHER SUPREME COURT JUSTICES PASSED COMBINED.N MORE PAPER ON JUDGE KAVANAUGH THAN ALL OTHER SUPREME COURT JUSTICES COMBINED. SO ONCE AGAIN THAT ARGUMENT RAN OUT OF GAS. DANFORTH WAS THE NORMALLY SCHEDULED CONFIRMATION HEARINGS WHICH JUDGE KAVANAUGH SAT THROUGH WITH FLYING COLORS. BUT THEN THINGS BEGAN TO TAKE A DARKER TURN. AND I'M TALKING ABOUT THE ACCUSATIONS THAT THE DEMOCRATIC COLLEAGUE SAT ON FOR A MONTH.
BEFORE SEEING THEM LEAKED INTO THEE PRESS CONTRARY TO DOCTOR FORD'S WISHES AND HER CONSENT. THESE ALLEGATIONS ALLEGED HIGH SCHOOL MISCONDUCT ON THE PART OF JUDGE KAVANAUGH THAT THE RANKING MEMBER OF THE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE DID NOT SHARE THAT WITH THE FBI FOR SIX WEEKS OR MORE, DID NOT SHARE IT WITH BIPARTISAN SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE INVESTIGATORS WHO ARE RESPONSIBLE TO SUPPLEMENT THE INVESTIGATION THE BACKGROUND INVESTIGATION THE RANKING MEMBER DID NOT SHARE IT WITH THE COMMITTEE ITSELF WITH A CLOSED-DOOR SESSION WHEN SENSITIVE MATERIAL WOULD NOT BE MADE PUBLIC AND DOCTOR FORD'S IDENTITY CONSISTENT COULD BEEL REMAIN CONFIDENTIAL AS WELL BUT OF COURSE JUDGE KAVANAUGH HIMSELF WAS NEVER TOLD ABOUT THIS ALLEGATION UNTIL SOMETIME AFTER HIS INITIAL HEARING. WHEN THE SENIOR SENATOR MET ONE-ON-ONE IF SOMEBODY HAD A QUESTION ABOUT AN ALLEGATION AGAINST THE NOMINEE DON'T YOU THINK THAT'S THE PERFECT TIME TO CONFRONT THE NOMINEE TO SAY I HAVE AN ALLEGATION? THAT SHE SAID NOTHING.
BY THAT POINT WE KNOW SHE HAD ALREADY SPOKEN TO DOCTOR FORD, WE KNOW SHE ALREADY RECOMMENDED PARTISAN LAWYERS TO REPRESENT HER. AND THAT THERE HAD BEEN ARRANGEMENTS BY HER LAWYERS TO CONDUCT A POLYGRAPH.
THIS IS ALL DURING THE TIME WHEN THE SENIOR SENATOR FROM CALIFORNIA HAD ASSURED DOCTOR FORD THAT HER NAME WOULD BE KEPT OUT OF THE PRESS AND OUT OF THE PUBLIC LIMELIGHT. THEN SHE WAS SENT TO THE PARTISAN LAWYERS AND THEY WERE PREPARING FOR BATTLE A POLYGRAPH EXAMINATION PLANS WERE BEING MADE AND HASHED BUT THE RANKING MEMBER OF THE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE SAT ON S THESE ALLEGATIONS SIX WEEKS. NOTHING INCLUDING THE ALLEGATIONS WHOSE NAME WOULD BE TARNISHED FROM THE FULL FURY OF THE WRATH THAT WAS UNLEASHED.
THESE ACCUSATIONS ARE VERY SERIOUS. JUDGE KAVANAUGH HAS BEEN ACCUSED OF MULTIPLE CRIMES AND I HAVE SAID EARLIER THAT I WANTED DOCTOR FORD TO BE TREATED THE SAME WAY AS MY OWN DAUGHTERS OR MOTHER OR MY WIFE IN SIMILAR CIRCUMSTANCES THAT IS THE SORT OF RESPECT WE OWE ANY PERSON MAKING A SERIOUS ALLEGATION LIKE THIS.
BUT WE WERE DOING EVERYTHING WE COULD TO TREAT DOCTOR FORD WITH THE DIGNITY AND RESPECT SHE DESERVED MY DEMOCRATIC COLLEAGUES DID HER A HUGE DISSERVICE NOT ONLY TO HER THAT ANY OTHER WOMAN ACROSS THIS COUNTRY WHO A BELIEVES THEY WERE A VICTIM OF A SEXUAL ASSAULT.
AND I SAY THAT BECAUSE OF THE WAY THEY HANDLED DOCTOR FORD'S ACCUSATION AND HID THEM WE KNOW DOCTOR FORD REQUESTED CONFIDENTIALITY BUT THE DEMOCRATIC COLLEAGUES DEPRIVED HER OF THAT AGAINST HER WILL THAT WAS LEAKED TO THE PRESS ALONG THE WAY WHICH IS THE WAY THIS CHARACTER ASSASSINATION BEGINS. ANONYMOUS OF COURSE TO THE PRESS.
WE KNOW SHE IS STRUGGLING WITH THESE MOMENTS IN HER PAST BUT EVENTUALLY SHE SUMMONED THE COURAGE TO SHARE HER STORY BUT WHAT SHE DID NOT FULLY APPRECIATE IS THAT SHE WAS SIMULTANEOUSLY BEING USED AND DEPLOYED AS A POLITICAL WEAPON WEAPON, A LAST-MINUTE TIMEBOMB TO DESTROY ONE MAN'S REPUTATION DURING THE CONFIRMATION PROCESS ONCE AND FOR ALL.L. I WOULD SAY TO OUR. COLLEAGUES ACROSS THE AISLE WHO ARE PRETENDING TO BE ACTING IN DOCTOR FORD'S BEST INTEREST , IT DOESN'T LOOK LIKE IT TO ME.
WE DID EVERYTHING WE COULD UNDER THOSE CIRCUMSTANCES pRESENTED TO US BY THE DEMOCRATIC COLLEAGUES TO SHOW RESPECT TO DOCTOR FORD TO ACCOMMODATE HER WISHES FOR SAFETY AND PRIVACY.
THE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE WANTED TO DO WHAT WAS BEST FOR HERVE WHEN IT OFFERED A BIPARTISAN TEAM OF INVESTIGATORS TO COME TOND CALIFORNIA AND GIVE HER AN OPPORTUNITY TO TELL HER STORY TO THEM, OUT OF THE LIMELIGHT WITH THE TV CAMERAS OFF , RESPECTFULLY AND PRIVATELY. AS PART OF THE SUSPICIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES THE VERY LAWYERS THE RANKING MEMBER SENT HER TO APPARENTLY DID NOT EVEN TELL DOCTOR FORD THAT OPTION WAS AVAILABLE TO HER. THAT IS WHAT DOCTOR FORD SAID AT THE HEARING.
WE ALSO BROUGHT IN AND EXPERIENCED SEXUAL ASSAULT INVESTIGATOR AND LAWYER FROM ARIZONA TO ELICIT THE FACTS OF HER CLAIM. AND THROUGHOUT A THE HEARING WE LISTEN TO WHAT DOCTOR FORD WAS TELLING US WE TOOK HER STATEMENT SERIOUSLY. BUT THEN IT WAS JUDGE KAVANAUGH'S TURN. NOW OUR COLLEAGUES SEEM CONCERNED ABOUT HIS JUDICIAL TEMPERAMENT BECAUSE OF THE WAY HE FORCEFULLY DEFENDED HIMSELF AT THE HEARING WHERE HE HAD BEEN ACCUSED OF MULTIPLE CRIMES AND LYING UNDER OATH. THAT HAS NOTHING TO DO WHAT HIS TEMPERAMENT IS LIKE ON THE BENCH HE IS SPENT 12 YEARS IN THE AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION GAVE HIM THE VERY HIGHEST RATING NOT ONLY FOR HIS EXPERIENCE BUT FOR HIS TEMPERAMENT. . . . . ISN'T IT SOMEBODY'S WORD AGAINST ANOTHER? DON'T WE EITHER HAVE TO BELIEVE EVERYTHING ONE SAYS OR ANOTHER? DO WE KNOW WHO TO TRUST, WHOSE WORD TO ACCEPT, WHEN ALLEGATIONS WERE MADE ABOUT SOMETHING ALLEGEDLY THAT HAPPENED 35 YEARS AGO WITH GAPS IN THE STORY, INCONSISTENCIES? WELL, I THINK THE FIRST THING WE HAVE TO DO, MADAM PRESIDENT, IS PUT THESE QUESTIONS IN THE PROPER CONTEXT.
BUT HERE'S THE BOTTOM LINE. THIS IS NOT A CASE OF HE SAID, SHE SAID. IT'S A CASE OF SHE SAID, THEY SAID.
IN OTHER WORDS, THE ALLEGATIONS MADE BY DR. FORD ARE NOT CONFIRMED OR CORROBORATED BY ANY OF THE OTHER PEOPLE SHE SAID WERE PRESENT THAT DAY.
ONE OF THOSE PEOPLE SHE SAID WAS PRESENT WAS LELAND KEYSER, A FEMALE FRIEND, ONE OF HER CLOSEST FRIENDS WHO SAID NOT ONLY DOES SHE NOT REMEMBER BEING INVOLVED IN ANYTHING LIKE THIS, SHE SAID SHE NEVER EVEN MET BRETT KAVANAUGH.
THIS IS NOT ABOUT BELIEVING WOMEN OR BELIEVING MEN. THAT'S A FALSE CHOICE.
IT'S NOT ABOUT HAVING TO CHOOSE BETWEEN A MAN AND A WOMAN WHEN IT COMES TO ALLEGATIONS OF SEXUAL ASSAULT.
IT'S NOT ABOUT BEING FOR THE ME TOO MOVEMENT OR AGAINST IT, BECAUSE WHO, AFTER ALL, COULD BE AGAINST IT, WOMEN COMING FORWARD AND TELLING THEIR STORY WHEN THEY BELIEVE THEY HAVE BEEN ASSAULTED. NO, WHAT THIS IS ABOUT IS LOOKING AT THE SPECIFIC RELEVevant evidence in this case...
[then the transcript cuts out where Cornyn’s lies deepen]
..in the proper framework. That evidence goes well beyond the impassioned unequivocal denial by Kavanaugh.
In this case I said there were three eye witnesses Dr. Ford said could confirm her story.
And all of them are directly refuted. What’s more, nothing like this ever came up in the context of six previous FBI background investigations conducted by the FBI during judge Kavanaugh’s long and very public career
continued: 00:14:32
We’ve BEEN TOLD THE FBI WITH THE COURSE OF THOSE BACKGROUND INVESTIGATIONS INCLUDING THE SUPPLEMENTAL BACKGROUND INVESTIGATION DON'T YOU THINK SOMETHING SOMEWHERE, SOMETIME WOULD CORROBORATE WHAT DOCTOR FORD SAID IF THERE WAS SUCH A PERSON?
AND WE KNOW THESE CLAIMS CONFLICT WITH THE ACCOUNTS OF MANY WOMEN WHO SAY THEY KNOW THIS NOMINEEEH TO BE HONORABLY IN HIGH SCHOOL AND COLLEGE BUT COUNTLESS OTHER WOMEN WHO HAVE KNOWN IN THE INTERACTIVE JUDGE KAVANAUGH, IT SEEMS SIMPLY OUT OF CHARACTER FOR THE BRETT KAVANAUGH WE HAVE COME TO KNOW WITH THESE INVESTIGATIONS
AND FINALLY IT SEEMS AWFULLY CALCULATED TO BE POLITICALLY MOTIVATED THAT THE DEMOCRATIC COLLEAGUES CHOSE NOT TO T ACT ON THE OPPORTUNITY TO INVESTIGATE THEM OR THE FBI IF IT WAS MORE APPROPRIATE TO DO SO.
THOSE ARE THE FACTS WE SHOULD TCONSIDER AND THE EVIDENCE THAT JUDGE KAVANAUGH IS TELLING THE TRUTH I THINK DEEP DOWN TO REALLY VISIT ON - - REALIZE WITH THAT GOALPOST THAT IS WHY THEY RESORTED TO TALKING ABOUT THE ICE THROWING INCIDENT IN COLLEGE. MAN THAT IS DISQUALIFYING.
TO LOOK AT THE HIGH SCHOOL YEARBOOK I WOULD STIPULATE THAT TEENAGE BOYS I WAS ONE ONCE WE ARE NOT THAT SMART WHEN WE ARE TEENAGE BOYS AND THE DUMB THINGS THAT PEOPLE SAY AND DO THAT ARE CRINGE WORTHY. AND THEN WE SEE CONSPIRACY THEORIES FROM THINGS BROUGHT UP IN HIS CALENDAR FROM 1982.
I ADMIT IT IS A LITTLE ODD FOR SOMEBODY TO KEEP A DAILY CALENDAR AND STILL HAVE IT AT AGE 53. BUT JUDGE KAVANAUGH SAID THAT IS WHAT HIS DAD DID IT WAS A COMBINATION OF CALENDAR AND DIARY. SO IT SHOWS WHAT HE WAS DOING AT THE TIME. BUT I WOULD SUGGEST THIS ENTERPRISE IS GOTTEN SO FAR AFIELD FROM THE SEARCH FOR THE TRUTH THAT IS UNHINGED AND RELENTLESS. AND IN THE PROCESS TO CHEW UP AND SPIT OUT THE REPUTATION OF A GOOD MEN LONG - - ME AND.
OUR FRIENDS ACROSS THE AISLE HAD KNOWN THEIR OPPOSITION - - OPPOSITION WOULD BE MERCILESS MONTHS AGO WHEN THE MINORITY W LEADER SAID HE WOULD OPPOSE THE NOMINATION WITH EVERYTHING HE'S GOT. EVERYTHING INCLUDES LAST-MINUTE UNCORROBORATED ACCUSATION FROM ALMOST 40 YEARS AGO.
AND REFUSING TO PARTICIPATE IN THE NORMAL COMMITTEE PROCESS WALKING OUT OF HEARINGS, BREAKING THE RULES. AND THEN TO INCITE PEOPLE AND TO SEE OUR COLLEAGUES GET CLOSE HANGER SENT TO THEIR OFFICES AND WITH THOSE SPOUSES OR THROUGH THE AIRPORTS OR DELAYS OF OBSTRUCTION EVERY STEP OF THE WAY.
HERE IS WHAT NEEDS TO BE UNDERSTOOD BUT THEN TO BE LOOKING OUT FOR THE VICTIM. LOOKING ON THE SIDE OF EMPATHY BUT THERE IS NOTHING EMPATHETIC ABOUT THE CRUELTY THEY HAVE SHOWN JUDGE KAVANAUGH HIS WIFE AND THEIR CHILDREN. NOTHING BUT PRESUMING FOR LONG - - ANYBODY IS GUILTY WITHOUT EVIDENCE OR WITH A STANDARD REFRAIN OF THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM.
SO SOME COMMENTATORS HAVE CALLED THIS THE ATTICUS FINCH MOMENT FROM THE FAMOUS NOVEL TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD BY HARPER LEE. WE ALL REMEMBER THAT ATTICUS FINCH WAS A LAWYER WHO DID NOT BELIEVE IN THE MERE ACCUSATION WAS SYNONYMOUS WITH GUILT. HE REPRESENTED AN UNPOPULAR PERSON THAT MANY PEOPLE PRESUMED WAS GUILTY OF A HEINOUS CRIME BECAUSE OF HIS RACE AND HIS RACE ALONE.
IF THERE IS A VICIOUS AND UNRELENTING ATTACK SO I FIND THE MOST DISTRESSING MY COLLEAGUES THAT HAVE ENGAGED IN THIS RELENTLESS AND VICIOUS ATTACK EXPRESS NO REMORSE ABOUT CONFIDENTIALITY WITH NO ACT OF CONTRITION INTO THE SPOTLIGHT OR TO RECOMMEND PARTISAN LAWYERS FROM THE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE I SPENT MUCH OF MY CAREER THAT VICTIMS OF SEXUAL ASSAULT AND DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND HUMAN TRAFFICKING ARE NEVER IGNORED.
SO AT THE SAME TIME I WILL NEVER APOLOGIZE FOR ONE SECOND WITH THE CONSTITUTIONAL PRESUMPTION OF INNOCENCE AND DUE PROCESS OF LAW. ONE OF THE BEDROCK PRINCIPLES OF THE JUSTICE SYSTEM BUT THAT APPLIES TO KAVANAUGH JUST AS MUCH AS ANY DEFENDANT TAKING THE STAND. BUT MULTIPLE CRIMES.
AND ULTIMATELY HISTORY WILL JUDGE ALL OF US.
THE SENATE MUST DO ITS JOB AND WE WILL NOT BE INTIMIDATED. THESE ARE ABOUT THE PRINCIPLES AND SOMETIMES EVEN WHEN IT'S UNPOPULAR. OR WITH THE CONSTITUTIONAL PRINCIPLES WITH THIS ORCHESTRATED SMEAR CAMPAIGN.
IF THIS IS SUCCESSFUL WHAT TYPE OF PRECEDENT THAT WILL SET FOR THE FUTURE?
SHAME ON ALL OF US IF THAT HAPPENS. THIS IS ABOUT VALIDATING PUBLIC SERVICE WITH HONORABLE CONDUCT IT'S NOT ALL ABOUT WHAT HE HAS WORKED FOR AT THE DROP OF A HAT BASED ON THE UNPROVEN ALLEGATIONS. SO IT IS ABOUT WHAT IS JUST AND NOT JUST POPULAR IN SOME CIRCLES.
NOW THE FBI WITH THAT SUPPLEMENTAL BACKGROUNDND INVESTIGATION THAT THEN HAVING BEEN BRIEFED I CAN TELL YOU THIS.
NOTHING NEW. NO WITNESS CAN CONFIRM ANY ALLEGATION AGAINST JUDGE KAVANAUGH WHO HAS BEEN INVESTIGATED SEVEN TIMES BY THE FBI THROUGH BACKGROUND INVESTIGATIONS TALKING TO 150 WITNESSES.
SO MADAM PRESIDENT, IT IS TIME TO VOTE AND I HOPE MY COLLEAGUES WILL JOIN ME TO SUPPORT JUDGE KAVANAUGH'S NOMINATION SUPPORTING WITH THE CLOTURE MOTION TOMORROW OR MORNING. I YIELD THE FLOOR AND I NOTE THE ABSENCE OF A QUORUM.
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Digby again, finds it:
precisely - the psychological projection displayed here today in this performance by Cornyn (R) that would make a propagandist like Goebbels very proud, may mark a turning point in history when the GOP will be remembered as the enemy of the American people, and democracy itself
— Every republican politician involved in this massive fraud that isn’t too stupid to realize the depth of this malfeasance, knows they are in the wrong on too many counts in violation of the Constitution, the democratic process, rule of law, and the parliamentary procedures necessary for a functioning senate
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Even the lone sentence by Cornyn that sounds like a universal truth because it normally always is a truth; “And ultimately history will judge all of us..” - is another republican lie.
That one sentence stood out as a perfect example of exactly how depraved the GOP “conservative” movement has proven itself to be. If the GOP has their druthers, and could make it so, no one would ever know the truth. Not now. Not ever
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— another C-Span link to senate actions